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The Recombobulation Area is a weekly opinion column and online publication covering news and politics in Milwaukee and Wisconsin.

The publication is completely independent and is funded by readers who subscribe right here on Substack. It is written, edited and published by longtime Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer.

The publication features bold opinions, in-depth analysis, extensively reported feature stories, podcasts, guest contributors, live events and more, with a unique perspective on the state’s largest city and the most closely contested swing state in the nation.

This column gets its name from the semi-famous post-security area at the Milwaukee's Mitchell Airport where one “recombobulates.”

The news cycle in Milwaukee and Wisconsin can often be discombobulating. That’s why we need The Recombobulation Area, to help piece everything together before you move on to wherever it is you’re going.

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